Space News Pod

In this episode we talk about how the ISS is as dirty as an Earth gym and really cool pumpkin toadlets that live in brazil and glow under UV lights.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, an un-manned spacecraft the size of a small family car, is already the closest man-made object ever to the Sun – now a mere 15 million miles (24 million km) away from its fiery surface. European Space Agency operations specialists are helping flight planners at new European space startup PTScientists, headquartered in Berlin, pilot their way to the moon. 

 Youtuber, Tom Staniland, known as "Killem" said the goal of his mission wasn't just to launch said burger into space, but to be able to actually eat a burger that had breached earth's atmosphere. 

ALH-77005, a Martian rock found in Antarctica, contains numerous mineralized ‘biosignatures,’ including coccoidal, filamentous structures and organic material, according to a team of scientists from Hungary.  The agency and Mattel, the company that makes Barbie, partnered to create two Cristoforetti-look-alike dolls in honor of Barbie's 60th "birthday" this year, according to a statement from the ESA. One of the dolls wears a stylized reproduction of NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit, the suit that astronauts wear on spacewalks, and the other Barbie wears a blue ESA flight suit complete with patches from the agency.  

 An Israeli lander is now orbiting the Moon ahead of a lunar landing on the 11th of April

 Amazon wants to launch thousands of satellites so it can offer broadband internet from space.   "Project Kuiper" is Amazon's plan to launch 3,236 satellites to build a network to provide global high-speed internet. The move represents the latest space ambition from Jeff Bezos. There's a race among several major players to build a next-generation broadband network in space, including Elon Musk's SpaceX and SoftBank-backed OneWeb.

 NASA sees risk to ISS after India's Mission Shakti: The ISS is at constant risk of collision from space debris, and once in a while needs to navigate away in order to avoid collisions.

 MIT and NASA engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wing. Assembled from tiny identical pieces, the wing could enable lighter, more energy-efficient aircraft designs.   Scientists have pondered Saturn's rings since Galileo peered at the planet through an early telescope in 1610. From the angle at which he observed it, Galileo surmised that Saturn wasn't a single star, but was actually three: a large middle star with two ear-like appendages sticking out of it, which he thought might be large moons. 

The Event Horizon Telescope will be announcing it's first findings on April 10th 2019 at 15:00 CEST. We expect there to be the first ever pictures of black holes to be released.

 DARPA plans to demonstrate a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) system that can be assembled on orbit to expand U.S. operating presence in cislunar space, according to the Pentagon advanced research agency’s fiscal 2020 budget request. 

New evidence of deep groundwater on Mars Researchers suggests that deep groundwater can generate surface streams on Mars.

 NASA and the European Space Agency are willing to pay 24 participants nearly $19,000 to spend 60 days in bed and monitored around the clock.   The 24 participants will be separated into two groups, but housed in a single room. Each person will be propped up at an incline with their feet above their head, reducing blood flow to the extremities, mimicking the effects of being in space. This could, however, lead to numbness and muscle deterioration. 

When astronauts spend long periods of time in space, the more likely they are to have viruses such as herpes, chickenpox and shingles reactivate, according NASA . 

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to launch astronauts in July, says Russian source. Nicole A. Mann could possibly be the first woman to step foot on the Lunar surface.

 Pence made the declaration at a meeting of the National Space Council hosted at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.   https://anchor.fm/space-news  https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast  https://youtube.com/spacenewspod  https://twitch.tv/spacenewspod  https://spacenewspodcast.com  https://twitter.com/spacenewspod  https://facebook.com/spacenewspod 

 Is there evidence of life on Mars? An international team of research scientists, in a just published monograph titled "Evidence of Life on Mars? --consisting of a scholarly review of nearly 200 peer reviewed scientific studies-- answer this age old question with a resounding "yes." And they've included pictures of Martian specimens, photographed by NASA, which they say support their claims.  

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a directive centralizing all military space functions under a new Space Force, which will be overseen by the Department of the Air Force. 

 Vice President may tell NASA to accelerate lunar landings.   "We're tired of generating PowerPoint journeys that don't go anywhere."

Toyota's Latest is a Sweet-Looking Lunar Rover & NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars.

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